Here are a couple of more quotes from that thread:
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The videos are no longer up, but here is an entire thread discussing my sparring and tearing apart everything that I could have done better.
http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/foru...5&highlight=JP
Say what you want, but I have no problem putting myself out there for public critique.
What's even more so at that time was his ability to drink & cross'em up!
A bottle of 100 proof SoCo... I end up with a black eye :eek:, he gets kicked across his living room :cool: & he still out drank me that night :D !!! Man is a true beastie!!!
I was responding to Syn7 but I get your point.
For a system as large as SD, we do owe a lot more examples of guys who have won in open competition. There is good sparring I've seen at the SD tournaments but that doesn't get much credibility since it's not open style. I agree that there should be more SD folks mixing it up outside the style.
Also, at least here in Ohio, there's never been any resistance from instructors to participating in tournaments, open or otherwise.
If I'm understanding JP correctly, he's not claiming to be that person.
A couple of folks from my qwoon participated in the Wong People tournament in Washington DC three years ago. One took 2nd in open sparring. I wasn't at the tournament and can't speak to the skill of the fighters there or the level of contact.
It would be good for us to engage in more open contacts. I think its another bad sign that some SD schools discourage this.
974 pages! Of what?
The aholin do folks should have their own chat site somewhere else-??